Author: "KEVIN ZEMBOWER" <KZEMBOWER AT jhuccp DOT org>
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 09:14:54 -0400
Hello all. I have an amanda system working well, using DDS-4 tapes to back up 20 disks on 6 hosts. The tapebackup host used to run from my office, using a hub with two other, low-traffic hosts to bac
Author: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 09:49:59 -0400 (EDT)
If you don't exceed your netusage. Typically one dumper per host, too, btw. Dumps are done straight to the tape server over the network. So, in theory, one dumper/client should be dumping straight to
Author: Christoph Scheeder <christoph.scheeder AT scheeder DOT de>
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 16:33:19 +0200
Hi,, Hello all. [...] Filesystems Dumped 19 4 15 (1:15) Avg Dump Rate (k/s) 42.9 43.1 30.9 ^^^^ this value is verry low for a 100baseT line, many people here on the list have found after such a chang
Author: "KEVIN ZEMBOWER" <KZEMBOWER AT jhuccp DOT org>
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 12:15:58 -0400
Thank you to all who responded, especially Christopher, Jousha and Mike. Most of you suggested checking the NIC and switchport for mismatches. This is a portion of "ifconfig eth0": admin:/proc/net #
Author: Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:32:28 -0400 (EDT)
Yes. You shouldn't have collisions. It depends on the NIC. Don Becker has diagnostic tools for all sorts of NICs: http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical
Author: "Paul G. Allen" <pgallen AT randomlogic DOT com>
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 09:54:25 -0700
IIRC, we had many problems with CISCO switches and NICs at Akamai that were supposed to be at full duplex and were not. Some we had to set a half duplex on both the switch and the NIC, some we could
Author: Gene Heskett <gene_heskett AT iolinc DOT net>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:36:45 -0400
Oh, my, yes. Here at home, on a 10baseT half duplex system where one would expect more collisions, I have only this since the alst reboot to install 2.4.19 a few days back. [root@coyote root]# ifconf
Author: "KEVIN ZEMBOWER" <KZEMBOWER AT jhuccp DOT org>
Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 16:08:30 -0400
Joshua, thank you very much. This is exactly what I was thinking of. I used an earlier version, mii-tool, which looks like it's been upgraded to mii-diag. Using this, I found that the NIC had negotia
Author: "KEVIN ZEMBOWER" <KZEMBOWER AT jhuccp DOT org>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 09:19:54 -0400
Well, so much for the NIC and switch causing the amanda slowdown. I changed the settings on my NIC last night before the amanda run to 100baseT-FD. However, the dump is still running now, 15 hours la